How to Write "Basketball" in Chinese

Video Transcript

"Now let me teach you the Chinese word for basketball; lan qiu. Lan qiu. In Chinese lan means basket and qiu is ball. It is very easy to understand this word. The upper part of lan, this radical, in Chinese we call it's bamboo. It's bamboo radical. Originally, the basket is normally made of bamboo. This is the middle part, here is the bottom. Qiu. When we write here as a radical the last stroke is arising. Here is the last dot. Lang qiu, again. Lang giu, basketball."